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VOL. IX., No. too, JAPS AND REDS STAGE BATTLE IN THE EAST UOLMIIKV1K FORCE OP 8.IMMI KILL TWO JAP OFFICEIW " AM IM MEN ALLIES WIN EIGHT IN SOUTH Grcrk. Firm-It unit lUmnuuilniui (IM iUM of Hod. KltUnic Many and Taking Murh Booty Vladivostok, Feb. 2G. In aa n gattenient between the Japaneio and Bolsbevlkl force, 20 mile east of Blagovieshtchotiikl, capital of Amur lrovlnc the Japanese lout two of ficers, 18 men killed and 20 wound ed. The Bolihevlkl, forca waa eatl mated at S.000 men. Athena, Feb. 28. Greek troops, with detachmenti of French and Roumanian, have advanced north of Odessa, puraulng BoUhovlkl forro along the Dniester river. They took the fort and town of Tiraspol on the right bank of Dniester, 53 mlloa from Odessa. The retreating Bolshevik! aban doned many doad and wounded and left their nun and munition In the hand of tba allies. DISCHARGED SOLDIERS MAY NOW KEEP Til El It UNIFORMS Washington, Feb. IS. The house haa adopted the conference report on the bill permitting soldier, aall ors and marine to retain their uni form when discharged and allowing them fire, centa a mile for traveling expenses home. The meaaure now goea to the prmldent. E Roieburg, Feb. 28. According to . the superintendent of the road con struction of, the now cutoff on the Paclflo highway south of this city, about nine miles of the now mad will be ready for travel this season. This new rond has Its beginning near Winston, and goes south along the banks of the South Uinpqua river to near Dtllard whore the road crosses tho river and then re-rrosnoa about three miles further on, and continues to Myrtle Creek, completely eliminat ing Roberts mountain. This Is ono of the finest pieces of rond Improvement In the county, as Roberts mountain has been a great menace to- tourist travel, and the many accidents, some fatal, that Tiave occurred on thin hill make this a dreadod section of tbn hlgliwiy. It will entirely ellmlnato n'l t'-o -;rado, and the road will be In rcadinoss for travel as soon as the season opeim. Other Improvements are being made In Cow Creok canyon, Canyon Creek canyon, and near the town of Glen dale. m A new bridge will be built over Cow Creek about throe mllos from Olendale and the new cutoff will take what Is known as the old Stage Coach road, which will enlm Inate another bad hill. This, with -other Improvements now under way. will make Douglas county ronds as good aa any In the state, where It has been In the past a country-wide saying that "Douglas county has the worst roads In the state" and prob ably In the west. , : Pass Creek canyon and , 'Roberts mountain are the two great menaces 'to travel. With both these ollmlnat od and many other grades reduced, las well as about 16 railroad crossings eliminated, this county will he fairly safe to', travel through. This how ever, Is some task as the county Is 126 mlloa In length, and road con struction, of the Tight kind, Is hard io get. BLAMES EDITORS Senator TImhium Hay I'ntcat Factor In t'nrrwt In America U ForHgn liiKUU(o Xov.pH"r Washington, Fob. 26. The aenate has ordored the committee Inveatl gating German propaganda to turn Its attention to Bolshevism and the cause for un-Amorlcanlam In He United States. Some of the senator declare outright that tho pre I the dlrort cause of the atate of Increasing unrest. Senator Kellogg, of Minnesota,, read from a St. touts newspaper an appeal made by Lenlne, the Russian Bolshevik leader, to American work er to overthrow the government with flame and sword. "There Is a propaganda on foot to do this very thing," he said. "And the name of the organisation back of It Is the I. W. W.," observed Senator Thomas of Colorado. "A patent factor In the unrest Is the foreign language newspapers. There are thousands of them In the United States, and I am sorry to ay moat of them are un-American and may of them are antl-Amerlcan. They have conducted a pro-kalser propaganda." Mr. Stolner said that some of these paper were subsidised by the steam ship companies, and that President Plrnltier of the Transatlantic Trust company had requested the Hungar ian government to buy some of them. "There Is another thing," he said. "These foreign language papers be llove that If the Immigrant would be Americanised, would learn English, sooner or later he would read the American papers, they would lose their subscribers and probably also their advertising' - 4 SEATTLE STRIKERS WILLING TO QUIT 4 f 4 Seattle, Wash., Feb. !. 4- Forty thousand striking ship- 4 yard workers will vote on a ret- 4 4- erendum proposing to call off 4 the strikes In Seattle, Tacoma, 4 4 Aberdoen and Ancortes, which 4 4- began January 21, It aasurances 4 4 are given the strikers that the 4 4 conference, to adjust wage de- 4 4 mands and other differences, scheduled to be held In Wash- 4 Ington, D. C, not later than 4- March 17, Is transferred to the 4 4 Paclflo coast. M4444444444444 W. J, Dyson, a prominent resident of Glondalovarrlved here Monday for the purpose of mooting the county court In regard to the employment of a number of GreokB on the Stage Coach Pass cutoff project, a new strip of the Paclflo highway now be ing worked about three mlloa above Glandule and which, when completed, will leave the southern Oregon town off the highway route. It Is under stood that a part of tho grading con tract has boon sub-lot to foreign la bor and Glendule cltlzens.are opposed to this practice and have petitioned the county officials to take what ac tion they deem necessary to bring about the dismissal of the Greeks. Tho county court, It .wait learned, will take up the matter with the propor, authorities In an effort to comply with the wishes of the Glen dale people. Roseburg Review. TONS OF BOOKS FOR . AMERICAN SOLDIERS With the American Army of Oc cupation, Feb. 26. Fifty thousand bpoks, consisting .of works of his tory, science, reference, Motion and others, have been brought into the occupied cone recently for the Amer ican soldiers holding the , Coblens bridgehead and the area on the left bank of the Rhine, FO BO E l OIIANTB PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, NAVY PROGRAM APPROVED er THE SENATE REPUBLICAN MEMBERS WILL OPPOSE PROVISION UIVINQ PltEHIDENT MORK POWER WILSON WAITS TO RUSH BILLS Anroprlatloiiii, OH Lraoco and, Wa ter Power I'p for Consideration. Campbell Named AmlioHMulor Washington, Feb. 26. The sen ate naval committee has ordered the naval appropriation bill, with Its new three-year building program favorably reported. Republican member will oppose the provision empowering the president to sus pend the program at his discretion. This provision was Intended tor use If development toward disarmament In the peace conference made It de sirable. The president Intended to go to the capltol today to discus the leg islative situation with senators. He want to expedite the . passage of several great appropriation bills, oil leasing and water power bills, and provisions continuing federal em ployment service. Republican oppo sition to his program has already been announced y Senators Lodge, Penroe and others. Washington. Feb. 26. President Wilson haa nominated Hugh Camp bell Wallace, of Tacoma, Wash., tor American ambassador to France. Washington, Feb. '26. The house today passed the Victory Liberty loan bill. 18 ARMY SAIL BEFORE JULY 1 Washington, Feb. 26. Announce ment by General Pershing's chief of staff that 18 national guard and na tional army divisions were scheduled to sail from France before July 1, confirms reports current here that the expedltlonay forces were to be reduced to a total strength of 300,000 by the end of the fiscal year. The announcement from France Indicates that in addition to the seven regular divisions now In France and into which presumably men desiring to remain temporarily are being transferred, the American forces after July will Include the 29th national guard and the 78th and 81st national army divisions. This would give a nine division strength for the cnntliAtant fnrcna and allow one division for employ-' ment as a depoTS unit. . Washington, Feb, 26. Another epidemic. of Influenza has broken out In Barcelona, Spain, and Is spreading to as great an extent as that of last fall, according to ad vices received today by the state de partment.' INE Greensburg, Pa., Feb. 26. The highest scale of, wagoa ever paid In Westmoreland county was in force in 1918, the miner's average dally pay being about f 6, an increase of nearly $2 over 1917. . The average yearly earning of miners for 1918 was $1,800, in some instances this sum reaching $3,000. While $160 was the monthly . average, . many miners drew as high aa $400. OREGON. WEDNEHDAY, FEBRUARY mm Ai PEASANTS T ONCE 1SKATKN INTO SUBMISSION, SPARTACANS REORGANIZE TIIEIU FORCES T IS Radical SodnJlxU Join Spartacans In Endeavor to Overthrow Those ; Who Are In Power J Copenhagen, Feb. 26. A fresh re volt has broken out at Mannheim, and Spartacans have occupied the postofftce, telegraph office and rail way station. Berlin, Feb. 26. Spartacans and radical socialists have launched a movement to overthrow the existing government In Saxony, where the newly elected diet was to assemble today. A general strike has been proclaimed and railway communica tion with Halle, one of the principal Junction points In Saxony, ha been broken. The Spartacans are reported to have taken posesslon of Plauen and other Industrial centers. Berlin, Feb. 16. Dispatches from Mannheim report that a peasant re volt Is breaking out In the various districts In Baden as the result of fiction between the workmen's coun cil and the peasants. A WISE JUDGE New York, Feb. 26. "Take be outside, if she must go to the bank,' Instructed Maistrate Koenig when Paula Pollock started to draw on her personal account for money to pay her tine for disorderly conduct. LED SOLDIERS Washington, Feb. 26. Electricity in all its branches Is proving lm mensely attractive to the disabled soldiers, sailors and marines who are taking the free trade and profession al education placed at their disposal by the United States government, through the federal loard for voca tional education. Men who had a smattering of electrical Information before the war are now given the opportunity to perfect themselves and become realty skilled in the par ticular branches which they have chosen. This training embraces both practical and theoretical work, such as may -be obtained in the Massachu setts, Institute ot Technology, Case School ot Applied Science, Georgia Tech, Alabama A & M, with practical training with the General Electric company, and other concerns and In plants of some of the great power companies. Men taking the courses are. If un married, supported by an allowance of $65 per month from the federal board; more Is given it the man has dependents. There is no set time in which a course must be finished. The sole criterion Is the ability of the man to carry on under commer cial conditions. If It is a wage earn ing branch ot the trade he is quali fying for, a position Is ready for him when he is ready tor It, the place ment division of the federal hoard having arranged for the employment. The federal board for vocational ed ucation, whose address is Washing ton, D. C, Is anxious to hear from any war disabled soldiers who are Interested In this free training pro vided by the government, not as a charity, but as a matter ot Justice to disabled men who have been lm' paired in the nation's service. FIGH N BADEN ELECTRIOTY 20, 1910 WOULD TURN JAPS AGIST THE U.S. RiumIiui NewsWer, Hacked by Cer tain Rumian Faction, Trying to Stir Up Big Fiu Vladivostok', Monday, Feb. 24. Attacks by certain newspapers on the attitude of the American troops' In Eastern Siberia with the evident pur pose of attempting to arouse Rus sian sentiment against the Ameri cans and to create discord between the Americans' and the Japanese have been answered by Colonel Henry D. Slyer, of the American army. The attacks were based on the fact that the Americana had given protection at Khabarovsk to 1,500 Cossacks who had mutinied against General Kalmikoff. An alleged wireless dispatch from Japan, reproduced in the Vestnik, says that only the presence ot the Japanese troops at Khabarovsk pre vented part of the American troops Joining the mutineers. The Dally Vostok, the organ of General Kalmi koff, declares that the American sol diers took part In (he plans. Colonel Styer said:. "At the request of our allies, we make the following official explana tion: "The American troops have no In tention of defending or sheltering political parties or groups w nether they are called Bolshevik! or other names. The Americans recently dis armed the Cossack deserters for the sole purpose of avoiding bloodshed and disorders. We are keeping them under guard while the allied mili tary council at Vladivostok decides what Is to be done with them. The American troops are always ready to act conjointly with the- commander ot tjie allied force la the defense of safety." 4- LEGISLATURE MAY " 4-4- ADJOURN THIS EVENING . . 4- 4- Salem, Ore., Feb. 26. The -4 4 bill tor military training In the 4 4- high schools and colleges waa 4 4- killed in the house. The gov- -f 4 ernor will appoint a commts- 4 4- slon. headed by O. C. Letter,, to 4 4- welcome the returning Oregon 4' soldiers in New York 4- The legislature Is expected to 4- 4 adjourn sometime tonight, af- 4- ter a 45-day session. 4- AT COME TO THL1R SENSES Tacoma, Feb; 26. Typographical Union No. 170 registered its disap proval of the manner in which the Central Labor Council called the so called general strike several weeks ago by voting, Sunday to withdraw from affiliation with the council. It further indicated lta disapproval ot the character of the articles and edi torials appearing In the Labor Advo cate by voting to withdraw its sub scription from the paper., -. The Typographical union is the second to withdraw from affiliation with the council since the general strike fiasco, the Railway Clerks having taken similar action. The typographical workers are said to resent being called "unfair" while employed in plants thoroughly, union ized because they refused to Join In a strike they helieved Illegal and that was jot sanctioned by their In ternational officers. ENGLAND'S DEMOBILIZATION London, Feb. 26. Industries on which all business depends, such as coal mtnlng, are the first to get their men back from the army. Pivotal men In all essential Industries will be the next to be demobilised,, fol lowed by the men who have definite Jobs waiting for them proved by agreements with their employers. As exception to this rule, all men over 41 will be demobilized at once and also men who have been in hos pitals more than one month. WHOLE NUMBER 2001. COMMUNISTS PAID BIG SUM "BY RUSSIANS MANY ARE ARRESTED CHARGED WITH REBELLION AGAINST HUNGARY HUNS PROTEST DEPORTATION Wants Her Citizens to Remain la China, Which Country Will De. port Over 2.500 Basel, Feb. 26. Seventy-six com munists have been arrested on charges of rebellion against the Hun garian republic at Budapest, it Is re ported here. During the examination' they admitted that money to set up an anti-republican government came from Russia and that during the past month expenses amounted to 300, 000 crowns,' but they refused to re veal where the funds are being kept. Paris, Feb. 26. German armis tice delegates at Spa have protested against the deportation of all Ger mans from China, which country sent two shiploads to Australia in January and Is preparing to send the others to Germany direct. About . 2,500 Germans, half of them women and children, are Involved. ME TAX TO STIR TAXPAYERS Washington, Feb. 26. Slogans, coined by the internal revenue bu reau to stimulate early and full pay ment of income taxes . reflect the changed conditions in which the .tax payer finds . himself now that vie- . tory has been won and hostilities haye ceased. The powers of autoc racy have been defeated' but' the monetary cost of the success still la to he met, largely by the taxes to be paid this year. ", , "'Army of Occupation' sounds good but it needs your support," says one of the slogans. Then It asks, "Have you paid your Income tax?" : Another classes an income tax re ceipt with a gold service stripe. Those who celebrated victory most loudly are reminded that "tooting' a horn on armistice day did not end your part' in winning a peace, with victory. Paying your income tax makes more real noise than tooting a horn." Persons who may be Inclined to grumble at the increased rate of tax ation are given food for thought in the following: "If you think your income tax is a hardship, picture what you would have been up against had William Hohenzollern won the collectorshlp Job." Other slogans Include: "You stand up for the national an them. Now stand up and pay your Income tax. "There were no delinquents at Chateau Thierry. - Are you delaying the payment of your income tax? "Don't try to fool your conscience by cheering the returning soldiers and forgetting to pay your income tax. An income tax evader hasn't much on any of the other pro-Ger mans. "If you didn't serve over there you can serve over here by paying your Income tax. "When the boys come home they will ask what YOU have done. Show them your .Income tax receipt. "When you pay your Income tax you get a receipt from Uncle Sam. What would have William Hohenzol lern have handed you? - "Uncle Sam still has a big- Job ahead of htm. Help him by paying your Income tax now," j